A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes |
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... amount of legality of phrase can do away with the inalienable truth underlying it . Wheaton and President Woolsey to - day say , in effect , the same thing which Grotius said in 1615 , and Vattel in 1758 . Says Wheaton : " International ...
... amount of legality of phrase can do away with the inalienable truth underlying it . Wheaton and President Woolsey to - day say , in effect , the same thing which Grotius said in 1615 , and Vattel in 1758 . Says Wheaton : " International ...
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... amount paid for him . Four years later ( 1809 ) General Harrison is instructed by the President " to take advantage of the most favorable mo- ment for extinguishing the Indian title to the lands lying east of the Wabash , and adjoining ...
... amount paid for him . Four years later ( 1809 ) General Harrison is instructed by the President " to take advantage of the most favorable mo- ment for extinguishing the Indian title to the lands lying east of the Wabash , and adjoining ...
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... amounts required to be invested . On this amount the Government has already paid from its treasury $ 1,742,240 a sum which is now equal to two - thirds of the principal , and will in a few years be equal to the whole , if the practice ...
... amounts required to be invested . On this amount the Government has already paid from its treasury $ 1,742,240 a sum which is now equal to two - thirds of the principal , and will in a few years be equal to the whole , if the practice ...
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... of said railroad for that amount , and a mortgage on one hundred thousand acres of the land which the Indians had sold to the railway company . There was another very curious bit of legislation in regard 56 A CENTURY OF DISHONOR .
... of said railroad for that amount , and a mortgage on one hundred thousand acres of the land which the Indians had sold to the railway company . There was another very curious bit of legislation in regard 56 A CENTURY OF DISHONOR .
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... amount of bonds which the United States had invested for the Delawares in State bonds of Missouri , Tennessee , and North Carolina , and which had been stolen while in the custody of Jacob Thomp- son , late Secretary of the Interior ...
... amount of bonds which the United States had invested for the Delawares in State bonds of Missouri , Tennessee , and North Carolina , and which had been stolen while in the custody of Jacob Thomp- son , late Secretary of the Interior ...
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